It’s that time again. I’m getting ready to go Home. Every year around this time, thousands of womyn across the world start getting this restless feeling. Moving toward Home. I’ve noticed my inbox is fuller, womyn reaching out, checking in, reconnecting. I’ve noticed my FB is much, much more active. Even womyn who won’t physically [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Michfest’
Going Home
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged family, friendship, Michfest, pay it forward on June 20, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Changes
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged friendship, Michfest on May 16, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Today is clean out the basement day. I don’t want to, I don’t like it, it’s never fun and I have to do it at least once a year. And so, of course, I find myself procrastinating. I went on to Ravelry (FB for knitters) to look up some patterns and see if I was [...]
Ug!
Posted in intentional self, tagged being real, family, gratitude, intentional self, Michfest on January 2, 2009 | 1 Comment »
My mom and her husband have come to help me with home improvement projects for the new year. It’s been a wonderful thing. I now have a new bathroom. Previously I had had a half bath upstairs, but now I have a shower, and we’ve replaced everything except the toilet itself. It looks fabulous. Or [...]
Anonymity and the Blog
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged blogging, Michfest, music, reading on August 27, 2008 | 4 Comments »
So it seems that I have a base of 22 dedicated readers who check my blog regularly. I didn’t really think about having people who regularly checked in until yesterday when I was with some friends and one of them told me how glad she was that I was back from that place where there [...]
Moment of Beauty
Posted in intentional self, Michfest, tagged intentional self, Michfest, real on August 23, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Today, I went out as my real self to buy popcorn. As I was coming out of the store, I saw a man. A very large tatooed, well muscled, not white man. A man that would be racially profiled. A man that I could instinctively be very defensive around. He was walking a very, very [...]
Back, but not Home
Posted in Michfest, Uncategorized, tagged Michfest, PS on August 23, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
I arrived here at my domicile in the wee hours of Friday morning. It feels so sad to leave my home, which I can only be at for three weeks a year. I just thank the Goddess for that time. My time Home was, as is always the case, intense, crazed, loving, healing, uplifting, spirit [...]